Monday, November 24, 2008

A Digital Guide for Tracking Corruption

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… is a “handbook designed to help investigative journalists track corruption across borders.” The free handbook, in PDF format, is published by the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism and the International Center for Journalists. It is in English and “provides an array of new tools for investigative journalists that will help them give the public a better understanding of regional and global criminal networks,” the Romanian site says. You can download the handbook anonymously, although for whatever reason, when I did so in Firefox, I had to manually add the .pdf extension to the file to read it.

 

[via Global-l]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, this is an interesting tool. Are these tools widely used by journalists?

Mark said...

I'm not sure which tool you mean, since the book is really a collection of tools.

Investigative-oriented journalists would make frequent use of the tools in the book. But most journalists working a day-to-day beat aren't that interested in investigative reporting, so I would say they make use of those tools infrequently, if at all.